![]() ![]() It is the occasional essays and reviews that are mainly represented in The Innocent Eye, along with four new studies written expressly for this volume. Since that first book, Shattuck has written on Proust, published some poet"ry, and done a good deal of translating as well as a lot of occasional reviewing. It was a study of the avant-garde in France just-before the first war (1885 to about 1913). ![]() ![]() ROGER SHATTUCK, professor of French at the University of Virginia, is best known for a book published in 1958 and titled The Banquet Years. His most recent book is "The L December 30, 1984 ![]()
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